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Curiosity is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Each episode focuses on one question in science, technology, and society (e.g., why the RMS Titanic sank) and, for the first season, features a different celebrity host.
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. [2] Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC.
Curiosity rover on Mars (5 August 2015). The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover, Curiosity, were launched from Earth on 26 November 2011. As of January 24, 2025, Curiosity has been on the planet Mars for 4432 sols (4554 total days; 12 years, 171 days) since landing on 6 August 2012.
The Curiosity team was eager for the rover to investigate the Gediz Vallis channel, a winding groove that appears to have been created 3 billion years ago by a mix of flowing water and debris.
Despite its late hour, particularly on the east coast of the United States where it was 1:31 a.m., [9] the landing generated significant public interest. 3.2 million watched the landing live with most watching online instead of on television via NASA TV or cable news networks covering the event live. [133]
On July 2, the Mars rover switched itself into safe mode, ceasing a host of functions including communications with ground control -- but no one knows why.
In its ancient past, Mars likely contained many of the necessarily ingredients for microbial life to flourish on its surface. Now, a new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a trifecta ...
Bradbury Landing is the August 6, 2012, landing site within Gale crater on planet Mars of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover. On August 22, 2012, on what would have been his 92nd birthday, NASA named the site for author Ray Bradbury, who had died on June 5, 2012.